Investigating the FBI.

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On March 8, 1971, the night
that Joe Frazier fought Muhammad Ali in the Fight of the Century, a
group of activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pa. They found
documents proving the FBI a
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Authentic Detroit-style pizza...now with bacon

Welcome to Haute-N-Ready, in which John Locanthi, Willamette Week’s trencherman of leisure, tastes the hastily made, modestly priced food of the common man.
The product line that inspired the name of this column is on a Taco Bell trajectory. The Hot-N-Ready from ...
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It would be our pleasure if you would dine with me at Wendy's

Welcome to Haute-N-Ready, in which John Locanthi, Willamette Week’s trencherman of leisure, tastes the hastily made, modestly priced food of the common man.
No matter where they started, fast food chains that last long enough invariably end up in their own niche....
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Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the landmark works of the new millenium, the novel that proved definitively Americans will suffer through anything for a few fleeting moments of titillation. Hollywood producers are banking on that success extending to cinema.

There are moments—especially early on—when Fifty Shades of Grey looks like it�...
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James Bond is inherently silly. An immaculately dressed, suave gentleman spy spitting out witty one-liners as he thwarts a supervillain’s plan for world domination, picking up hot chicks and dispatching with countless anonymous henchmen along the way. Sean Connery’s Bond understood that it was all a big goof. Roger Moore’s Bond got this. Even Timothy Dalt...
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The missing tampon scene from the director that could have been.

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The much-anticipated film adaptation of the mega-successful erotic fanfic novel Fifty Shades of Grey hits theaters this week. Fifty Shades, which entered this world as Twilight
fan fiction, has so
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Beyond the sea.

Movie Reviews & Stories
SpongeBob SquarePants is an absurdist red herring
of a children’s television show. Sure, it has the requisite fart and
poop jokes and the warm, treacly center common to the format, but it
al
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Why let the most exciting Double Downs be trapped in Asian markets?

Welcome to Haute-N-Ready, in which John Locanthi, Willamette Week’s trencherman of leisure, tastes the hastily made, modestly priced food of the common man.
Unless you’ve been on Mars for the last week, in a cave, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ea...
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Critic's Grade: DThe Boy Next Door wastes no time. In its first few minutes, it half-assedly skims over the strained marriage of high-school teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez). In the next few minutes, Claire is seduced by her 19-year-old neighbor, Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman), who’s evidently come straight from the J. Crew spring catalog. This hunk promptly transforms into a ...
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